Excerpt from "Glenn Gilbreath Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, the final topic is MTA, mail transport agent...while it > is true there are quite a number for DOS, I still vote for > NetMail DOS 2.12 by Marc Ressl...it is faster and easier > to setup than any other I've tried, which includes FDSMTPOP.
I find one serious flaw with NetMail DOS including 2.12 on downloading (POP3). When an email message has one or more lines of 1024 characters, NetMail downloads the message but then hangs, going into an infinite loop of adding whitespace to the downloaded message, was up to about 3 MB when I hit Ctrl-C and stopped it. Then all messages remain on the POP3 server, including those messages that downloaded successfully prior to the message with the line(s) of 1024 characters. UKA_PPP breezes through with no problem. I would get such long lines occasionally with about.com newsletters, occasionally with another newsletter I never subscribed to, and more recently with some base64-encoded Korean spams. With some of those base64-encoded Korean spams, the base64 code would go all the way on one line through character 1024, then character 1025 would start the next line, etc. I'm not sure what the RFCs say about line length in mail and news messages, but a mail and/or news client needs to be able to take a little rough treatment, should not crash just because a message deviates from standards.
